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Founded in 1946, Palomar College is a public two-year community college in the city of San Marcos, located in north San Diego County, California. Palomar offers over 300 associate degree, certificate programs and is designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an Hispanic-Serving Institution ...
A theoretical model of evolution in which species change slowly at a more or less constant rate through time into other species. See punctuated equilibrium.
Industry:Anthropology
A test result that indicates a medical problem when there actually is not one.
Industry:Anthropology
A term used by paleoanthropologists to refer to a big boned and muscular body. The robust species of early hominins were Australopithecus robustus, boisei, and aethiopicus.
Industry:Anthropology
A system for classifying people based on the knowledge that genetically inherited traits often gradually change in frequency from one geographic region to another--that is, they change in clines.
Industry:Anthropology
A system for classifying people based on the false assumption that humans can be unambiguously placed into "races" on the basis of selected traits such as skin color, hair form, and body shape. Advocates of this approach incorrectly believe that there are more or less distinct populations of people from different geographic regions. Negroid, Mongoloid, and Caucasoid are examples of typological groupings.
Industry:Anthropology
A system for classifying people based on the assumption that the only biologically distinct groups are long isolated breeding populations whose evolutionary paths have separated from other populations. Since physical and cultural barriers to interbreeding between most groups have broken down to some extent, this approach is of marginal value in grasping the reality of human variation today.
Industry:Anthropology
A sugar normally present in milk. Lactose intolerance is often due to lactase deficiency. However, physical intolerance of dairy products can also result from an allergy to milk proteins.
Industry:Anthropology
A stylized and usually repetitive act that takes place at a set time and location. Rituals are integral parts of religion, though not all rituals are religious in nature.
Industry:Anthropology
A structural modification of a chromosome in which a portion of a chromatid is broken off and attached to a different location on that chromosome or on another chromosome. This occurs as a result of crossing-over.
Industry:Anthropology
